PDF Compress 1

• License:

  Free

• Editor's Rating:

  2.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  1.0 stars (out of 7 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  12,702

• Operating Systems:

  Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  July 28, 2005

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version PDF Compress 1.00

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Publisher's description of PDF Compress

From BureauSoft:

Reduce the actual size of PDF files by compressing text and graphics. Compressed PDF files can be opened and viewed normally by all versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Editor's review of PDF Compress

• 2.0 stars

• "PDF Compress"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: PDF Compress 1

This program is designed to compress your large PDF files, but it is unable to deliver its promise. PDF Compress offers a straight-ahead interface with a few standard buttons and input boxes that allow you to select files and modify its information. After selecting the PDF file you want to compress, you can easily view the properties--such as the author, PDF version used, and the last modification date--without doing a thing. In our tests, it didn't perform well and wasn't able to reduce the size of our test documents as we expected. The publisher's description doesn't explicitly tell the compression rate and the algorithm it uses, making it hard for us to vouch for its effectiveness. We even can't restore the compressed PDF files to their original sizes due to lack of a decompression feature. With the flaws mentioned (and despite its freeware status), PDF Compress isn't a good choice for PDF file size reduction.

User reviews

• Average user rating: 1.4 stars out of 7 votes
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• 1 stars

  4 out of 6 people found this review helpful

  Version: PDF Compress 1

  "It makes your PDF files larger!!"

  by Björn Lundahl on January 18, 2006

  Cons: Actually, I tested to compress several PDF files, large and small, and I found that this software is good in making your PDF files larger and not smaller!! Bjorn Lundahl, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• 1 stars

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

  Version: PDF Compress 1

  "useless software"

  by yummy111 on July 28, 2005

  Pros: none

  Cons: it actually increases the size of your pdf rather than reducing it!Dont waste your time downloading it.

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• 1 stars

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

  Version: PDF Compress 1

  "Worst Compression Program Ever"

  by netsecur on April 11, 2006

  Pros: Its a quick download

  Cons: I had a 23 meg PDF file I wanted to compress. Followed the easy to use options within the program and pressed "Compress" a blank PDF file of 840 bytes was created. Uninstalled and reinstalled and still same problem. Worst program ever. Don't download this program

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• 1 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: PDF Compress 1

  "Great at anti-compression"

  by frnxuesheng on April 5, 2008

  Pros: It's free.

  Cons: This program does the opposite of its advertised purpose.

  I was running a comparison with another free pdf compressor on download.com to see which of the two were better at compressing pdfs created which contained: only OCR text (113 pages - 698 KB), OCR text and pictures (36 pages - 3,380 KB), and just scanned pictures (66 pages - 64,064 KB). In every instance, this program increased the file size when compared to the original. The OCR text became 710 KB; the OCR text and pictures became 3,384 KB; and just scanned pictures became 64,073 KB.

  Granted, the increases are not that much, but it's still an increase and opposite of what should have happened. The program really deserves 0 out of 5 stars.

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• 4 stars

  Version: PDF Compress 1

  "It works for me"

  by eazee2envee on April 16, 2008

  Pros: I like that it´s basically self explanitory and not that hard to figure out.

  Cons: When you have a bunch of scanned documents in on PDF file it doesn´t really compress a lot even if you put maximum. But it´s ok i guess

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